Footnotes
1. The GIRFEC implementation guidance will be published in the early summer.
2. Getting it right for every child: The approach in practice, Section 4, Scottish Government, 2008.
3. Working Together to Safeguard Children, Department of Children, Schools and Families, 2009, and All Wales Child Protection Procedures, Welsh Assembly Government 2008.
4. Children (Scotland) Act 1995.
5. See for example, UNICEFBehind Closed Doors, 2006, and Mullender, A. Tackling Domestic Violence, Home Office, 2004.
6. The Physical Punishment of Children in Scotland : A Consultation, Scottish Executive, 2000.
7. Supporting Child Witnesses Guidance Pack (part 1), Scottish Executive, 2003.
8. Protecting Children and Young People: Child Protection Committees, Scottish Executive, 2005.
9. Scottish Council Of Independent Schools ( SCIS) Guidelines On Child Protection, 2006.
10. How Well Do We Protect Scotland's Children? A report on the findings of the joint inspections of services to protect children 2005-2009, HMIE 2009.
11. Getting it right for every child: The approach in practice, Section 4, Scottish Government, 2008.
12. Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. Schedule 1 to this Act contains a list of offences against children.
13. Revised national guidance on joint investigative interviewing of children is expected to be published before the end of 2010.
14. For example: A Child in Trust, London Borough of Brent, 1985; Report into the death of Rikki Neave Cambridgeshire, 1997; Lord Laming, The Victoria Climbie Inquiry, 2003; Inspection into the Care and Protection of Children in Eilean Siar, SWIA, 2005.
15. The report of the Bridge Childcare Development Service (1997) into the death of Ricky Neave recommended that "when a parent is considered to be threatening or hostile any presumption that they are different with their children should be rigorously tested".
16. Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005.
17. "The honour is ours" , ACPOHBV Strategy, 2008.
18. A Choice by Right, Report of the UK Working Group on Forced Marriage, 1999.
19. Definition from Ritual Abuse Network Scotland.
20. Working Together to Safeguard Children, HM Government, 2006.
21. 1 in 9, The Scottish Coalition for Young Runaways, 2007.
22. Working Together to Safeguard Children,HM Government 2006.